Electoral system for national legislature

Angola

Angola

Answer
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Source

Angola Constitution (1992)

Article 79

79.2 Members of the National Assembly shall be elected through the system of proportional representation, based on the following criteria:

  1. Each province shall by right be represented in the National Assembly by five Members, and each province shall for this purpose Constitute an electoral college;
  2. The remaining one hundred and thirty Members shall be elected at national level, and the country shall for this purpose be considered a single electoral college;
  3. For Angolan communities abroad, there shall be constituted a single electoral college of three Members, two in the Africa region and one in the rest of the world
Comment

This was the first election in which free and multi-party elections were conducted after the 17-year civil war.

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